Easy Strawberry-Blueberry Tea Cake
Yesterday, I had the 3rd edition of my bread baking workshop - Breaking Bread. We made a rocket-basil-yellow cherry tomato pizza from scratch. Fluffy golden Mumbai pav was served with bhaaji. The cinnamon rolls we made today were turned extra special by adding raisins and orange zest soaked in brand
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup maida
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsps yogurt
- 2 tbsps cooking oil (neutral tasting like sunflower oil).
- 1/2 cup jaggery powdered .
- 1/4 cup sugar .
- 2 drops orange oil extract
- 1 tsp vanilla extract OR
- 3 to 4 tbsps milk .
- 1 cup strawberries finely chopped
- 1/2 cup blueberries fresh or frozen
- Icing sugar to dust over the top (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 180xb0C. Line a 9X7" baking sheet (to make a sheet cake) or a 6" round tin with baking paper or grease well and keep aside.
- Into a large bowl, sieve the dry ingredients. Keep aside.
- In another bowl, whisk the egg, yogurt, oil, powdered jaggery and sugar for 3-4 minutes till well combined and frothy.
- To this, slowly add the dry ingredients and combine with a whisk or fork. Add 3-4 tbsp of milk as it will be quite thick at this stage and whisk into the batter. Into this mix in gently the chopped strawberries and frozen blueberries.
- Scrape out the batter into the lined baking tin.
- Bake for 20 mins in case of 9X7 tin or for 30 mins in case of 6" round tin, in both cases, testing with a skewer if it comes out clean.
- Cool for 10 minutes after which you can cut as desired and serve hot with a dusting of icing sugar using a small sieve.
Notes
Refrigerate the leftovers - they make excellent reasonably healthy treats for kids' lunchboxes.
Shopping guide:
Organic powdered jaggery: Namdhari's.
Frozen blueberries: Delissh brand from Auchan (formerly Spar).